April 25, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Tokyo – It was learned on April 24 that the security contractor awarded the contract to patrol and secure the ocean area designated by the Okinawa Defense Bureau (ODB) for new military base construction in Henoko, Nago City, overcharged by 740 million yen.
Yaese Lion Dance group, which consists of traditional-arts performers in Yaese town, visited Hue City in Vietnam to participate Hue Festival 2018, which opened on April 27.
The group, led by Takeshi Kamiya, visited the Hue Central Hospital to hold a workshop with Thai Nghi Duong Lion dance...
April 25, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
April 25 marked one year since embankment work commenced for the new base in Henoko, Nago City.
The Helicopter Base Objection Association held a sit-in on the water in Oura Bay.
A little after 9:00 a.m., 150 people called to action assembled...
April 27, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
As of April 28, it has been two years since it occurred that a U.S. military contractor sexually assaulted and murdered a woman in the central part of Okinawa Island.
On the 26th an attorney who represents the family of the deceased released...
Many people visited sunny beaches on March 18, which is March 3 on the old lunar calendar, to hold an event called Hama-ori. Many children enjoyed clam digging on the beaches.
About 40 children, aged four to five, from Gajimaru nursery school in Mekaru, Naha City,...
April 17, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Around 3:30 p.m. on April 16 in Matsuda, Ginoza Village, 10 or more U.S. military amphibious vehicles crossed National Route 329 while traveling from the ocean toward the mountains. Regular traffic was stopped for over 10 minutes as the amphibious vehicles passed....
April 18, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
The Jeju Museum of Art on Jeju Island off the southern coast of South Korea began their “Post Trauma Exhibit” March 31 to mark the 70th anniversary of the “Jeju Uprising,” a revolt that resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of island residents at the...
April 20, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
How did a person from the Paleolithic era 27,000 years ago look?
On April 20 at 9:30 a.m., the Okinawa Prefectural Buried Cultural Property Center announced that the work of restoring the face from a skull found at Shiraho Saonetabaru Cave Ruins has been completed....
April 20, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
Washington Special Correspondent Yukiyo Zaha reporting
At the UN Headquarters in New York, the Seventeenth Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) opened on April 16 to discuss expanding protections for indigenous people’s rights....
April 17, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
On April 16, Governor of Okinawa Takeshi Onaga came to work at the Prefectural Office for the first time in 12 days, after he had been told to rest following the discovery of a tumor in his pancreas. As for attending the first policy...
April 13, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo
The University of the Ryukyus has teamed up with the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership (MSBP), an international conservation project that collects and stores seeds from all over the world to ensure the Earth’s biodiversity for the future.
Researchers...
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